✨ Celebrity Gwyneth Paltrow / GOOP

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Some supplements are good. Many of not most are pointless. You should be able to get most of what you need from a balanced diet but many of us don’t. Vitamin D for those of us at higher latitudes for example. Quite a lot of women suffer from low iron - the health burden of anaemia is huge globally. Some parts of the world need iodine supplements. Bit of fish oil won’t hurt (as long as it’s purified stuff) if you’re vegan, pregnant, or have health issues you may need a specific supplement. But really most of the expensive stuff is pointless at best and harmful at worst. Megadoses of vitamins can be harmful, and anything herbal can have significant activity and interact with other drugs (st Johns wort for example messes with hormonal contraceptives.)
Probiotics look quite interesting - our gut biomes have a big impact on our health. But we do t yet know enough about it to recommend specific bug mixes.
 
A work colleague of mine was conned into spending fifteen of her pounds on a Bach Flower Remedy from my local woomongery to alleviate anxiety at work. It came in a little bottle with a dropper on it. I asked her what was in it once she'd had a wee glug. It was homeopathic plant extracts (i.e. diluted to fuck) in brandy. She claimed it worked. It probably did. She was getting nicely sauced.

I then looked up the price on Amazon of a job lot of dropper bottles and a big jeroboam of Courvoisier. It was enough that the woomongery was making it out back at a profit margin of I'd estimate 300%.

Unfortunately there are people who believe that if it's expensive, it must work.
 
Otterly said:
Quite a lot of women suffer from low iron - the health burden of anaemia is huge globally.
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I read "The Sports Gene" yesterday, which covered the story of Africans having lower hemoglobin and (quoting from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5161432/ not the book) "iron supplements to young children living in a malaria endemic area who are iron replete may increase the risk of malaria-related hospitalization and mortality (Sazawal et al., 2006), among other studies, suggesting possible increased morbidity following iron supplementation in malaria endemic areas." One of my favorite bloggers speculates something analogous may occur with vitamin D supplementation in the Inuit http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2018/12/inuit-and-vitamin-d.html The blog is full of really interesting cool stuff, BTW
 
Underestimated Nutria said:
One of my favorite bloggers speculates something analogous may occur with vitamin D supplementation in the Inuit
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that’s really interesting. Something that springs to mind is how often the arctic populations are described as being bow legged in literature. Definitely an interesting line of work to look at whether the technical deficiency means Clinical problems.
 
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I just take cheap lanes or solgar B1-B2 supplements - good for skin and nails (like 5 euros in local drugstore)-as I saw in my latest check-up that I don't need B12 anymore, and I'm also not vegan.
I don't understand why people spend so much in celebrity supplements, from Goop, from Tati or anywhere.
 
NimertiS said:
I just take cheap lanes or solgar B1-B2 supplements - good for skin and nails (like 5 euros in local drugstore)-as I saw in my latest check-up that I don't need B12 anymore, and I'm also not vegan.
I don't understand why people spend so much in celebrity supplements, from Goop, from Tati or anywhere.
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Maybe some people think the celebrity supplements work better? The power of celebrity is strong, and some people may think they’ll look as good as them if they take those supplements. Really, as you said, most of the supplements that people benefit from are found in a local grocery store, and even then, are unnecessary depending on circumstances.
 
JambledUpWords said:
Maybe some people think the celebrity supplements work better? The power of celebrity is strong, and some people may think they’ll look as good as them if they take those supplements. Really, as you said, most of the supplements that people benefit from are found in a local grocery store, and even then, are unnecessary depending on circumstances.
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Yeah, and also they can brag to their friends that they use the same supplements like this x,y,z celebrity.
Like a status symbol. Look at me, I'm throwing my money in the garbage, I'm so not poor.
 
JonTron did a video on The Goop Lab, the Netflix series highlighting Goop:

 
The only episode with any actual meat to it is the one on "Female Pleasure." There, GP gets in actual medical and gynaecological people. It's also surprisingly grounded for that reason, but even Dodson and so forth look uncomfortable effectively acting as a human shield for a person who advocates ramming bits of rock up your mimsy. There's also a bit where a bunch of crunchy granola women are encouraged to kegel themselves to orgasm on camera.

The rest of it is the usual bumf about past lives, wellness woo, and why everyone should eat shrooms.
 
Can someone explain this to me? It seems to be a collaboration between Stephen Colbert and Gwyneth Paltrow and it's definitely an actual product, apparently on sale (or was at some point) at the Goop website...

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Is Paltrow aware Colbert's taking the piss?

Edit: Just did a little research and discovered that, yes, Gwyneth is in on it - she did a bit on "Late Night With Stephen Colbert" selling fake products. Nice to know the woman has a sense of humour - though I feel it demonstrates tremendous confidence on her part if she's willing to make fun of the very same culture and mentality she eagerly promotes and capitalizes on elsewhere - on the very same website, no less!
 
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Silvana said:
Can someone explain this to me? It seems to be a collaboration between Stephen Colbert and Gwyneth Paltrow and it's definitely an actual product, apparently on sale (or was at some point) at the Goop website...
Is Paltrow aware Colbert's taking the piss?
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I'd actually pay $26 bucks for that. Incoherent ramblings are my forte.
 
Silvana said:
Can someone explain this to me? It seems to be a collaboration between Stephen Colbert and Gwyneth Paltrow and it's definitely an actual product, apparently on sale (or was at some point) at the Goop website...

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Is Paltrow aware Colbert's taking the piss?

Edit: Just did a little research and discovered that, yes, Gwyneth is in on it - she did a bit on "Late Night With Stephen Colbert" selling fake products. Nice to know the woman has a sense of humour - though I feel it demonstrates tremendous confidence on her part if she's willing to make fun of the very same culture and mentality she eagerly promotes and capitalizes on elsewhere - on the very same website, no less!
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Alas, it's a charitable self-pisstake.

I know, if GP had not realised but sold it anyway it would have been mega. Then again, I think she is trying to troll people what with the cunt candle and the "Goop Lab" poster featuring a background that looks like a yoni. Unfortunately, all the self-parodying can't change the fact that she runs with conspiratards and woo-peddlers and the anti-vax brigade.
 
Ginger Piglet said:
Alas, it's a charitable self-pisstake.

I know, if GP had not realised but sold it anyway it would have been mega. Then again, I think she is trying to troll people what with the cunt candle and the "Goop Lab" poster featuring a background that looks like a yoni. Unfortunately, all the self-parodying can't change the fact that she runs with conspiratards and woo-peddlers and the anti-vax brigade.
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Yes, further research revealed to me that GP is in on the joke. And I've no objection to the profits from overpriced crap sold to idiots going to charity. However, as you say, it still serves as a big flashing advertisement for woo; free publicity (given it's only the profits that are going to charity - GP is making damn sure she's breaking even her end) I'm sure she's very glad of.
 
heavycream said:
Did she really substitute the word book with "reincarnated forest" because book was too much of a reminder that she's contributing to deforestation or something?
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I mean, this specific product is taking the piss, but in audiences like hers you just know Poe's law will kick in and people will start using the term unironically, especially with all the climate change alarmism going on.

EDIT: Speaking of Poe's Law, it doesn't matter if GOOP is something that Paltrow actually believes in or not. It's going to be the thing that stays with her name forever, hopefully as a testament to examples of new-age twattery.
 
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